On Saturday 14 August 2004 07:56, Bjorn Andersen wrote: > Hi > Sorry for writing in this list, but i dont know where else to write... > > I have RHEL3 WS, but it cant find my sound device (2.4 kernel and OSS). > Is there any where an guide to install Alsa sound on RHEL? i know the > http://freshrpms.net/docs/alsa/ but cant find any rpms for RHEL. Maby i > can use the RH9 source pacages, but where can i find them? And where can > i find the sources of kernel-module-alsa so i can compile it for RHEL? This is not the correct list, but I'll answer anyway. In the future, question about RHEL 3 should be directed to the taroon-list: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list I myself have installed ALSA on RHEL 3. I compiled from source. Just go to http://www.alsa-project.org/ look for your soundcard, go to the documentation, and follow the direction there. It's quite straight forward. The only catch, everytime you update the kernel from RHN, you'll have to recompile the ALSA driver, libs, and utils to match the new kernel. It's a bit hassle, but after 1-2 times it'll become quite trivial. My reason to go with ALSA because kernel that shipped with RHEL 3 sucks for latency. Using the shipped OSS driver makes the playing any sound stuff (ie. mp3) very sluggish. Somehow ALSA makes it rather acceptable. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Dept. Physics and Astronomy University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT/M/MU/P/S d-(++) s: a-- C++(+++) UL++++ P-- L+++>++++ E- W+++ N+ o? K- w--- !O M- V? !PS !PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X R- tv+ b++>+++ DI D(+) G e++>++++ h+(*) r++ y->++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
